Analyst Programmer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Analyst Programmer role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Analyst Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Analyst Programmer
Location Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Prescot Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Staines Stockport Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	225	165
Rank change on same period last year	-60
Matching contract IT job ads	517	941
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.682 %	0.998 %
As % of the category below	0.754 %	1.090 %
Daily rates quoted	126	259
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£409
Average daily rate	£428	£431
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£460	£454
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£319
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.77	£33.98
Average hourly rate	£35.70	£35.32
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.62	£36.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.90	£34.29
% change on same period last year	+1.78 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	68554	86361
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.40 %	91.61 %
Daily rates quoted	21954	24993
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£392
Average daily rate	£405	£417
% change on same period last year	-3.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£431	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	5870	6957
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.98	£24.55
Average hourly rate	£23.60	£26.06
% change on same period last year	-9.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.22	£27.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Analyst Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Analyst Programmer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Analyst Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Analyst Programmer within the UK.

Analyst Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Analyst Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Analyst Programmer within the UK.

Analyst Programmer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analyst Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Analyst Programmer
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Analyst Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
England	-61	453	£442	+1.66 %
London	-44	222	£490	+1.30 %
South East	-29	74	£317	-1.00 %
Scotland	+46	54	£212	-20.50 %
City of London	-57	47	£481	+0.64 %
Edinburgh	+29	31	£200	-30.43 %
North West	-20	30	£337	+22.74 %
South West	-6	29	£275	-20.44 %
Yorkshire	0	28	£300	-
Surrey	+12	26	£410	+23.77 %
West Midlands	+11	25	£284	+9.78 %
West Yorkshire	0	17	£300	-
Berkshire	+18	16	£314	-1.64 %
East Midlands	-16	15	£318	-25.18 %
Midlands	-17	13	£413	-1.78 %
Wiltshire	+1	13	-	-
East of England	-31	13	£330	+13.68 %
Glasgow	+15	13	£285	+15.73 %
Docklands, London	+18	11	£511	+9.43 %
Hampshire	+15	10	-	-
Leeds	-6	9	£300	-
Swindon	-12	8	-	-
Lancashire	+8	8	-	-
Bristol	+4	7	£267	-33.33 %
Manchester	-27	7	-	-
Birmingham	+16	7	£351	-
Hertfordshire	-16	5	£335	-0.74 %
Cheshire	-20	5	£348	-
Oxfordshire	-7	4	£300	-20.00 %
Reading	-17	4	-	-

Analyst Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Analyst Programmer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Analyst Programmer in their job title.

1 492 (37.93 %) SQL 2 326 (25.13 %) .NET 3 297 (22.90 %) Oracle 4 293 (22.59 %) Finance 5 263 (20.28 %) Java 6 255 (19.66 %) C# 7 248 (19.12 %) SQL Server 8 229 (17.66 %) Banking 9 161 (12.41 %) Unix 10 160 (12.34 %) Investment Banking 11 159 (12.26 %) XML 12 157 (12.10 %) ASP.NET 13 138 (10.64 %) Derivative 14 136 (10.49 %) VB 15 133 (10.25 %) PL/SQL

16 112 (8.635 %) COBOL 17 110 (8.481 %) RPG 18 109 (8.404 %) J2EE 19 107 (8.250 %) C++ 19 107 (8.250 %) Windows 20 99 (7.633 %) VB.NET 21 93 (7.170 %) VBA 22 91 (7.016 %) AS400 23 88 (6.785 %) OO 24 87 (6.708 %) Microsoft 25 84 (6.476 %) SQL Server 2005 26 78 (6.014 %) Mainframe 27 73 (5.628 %) VB6 28 71 (5.474 %) ASP 29 69 (5.320 %) Oracle 10g

Analyst Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Analyst Programmer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Analyst Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 326 (25.13 %) .NET 2 159 (12.26 %) XML 3 157 (12.10 %) ASP.NET 4 109 (8.404 %) J2EE 5 71 (5.474 %) ASP 6 66 (5.089 %) WebServices 7 62 (4.780 %) HTML 8 42 (3.238 %) Spring 9 40 (3.084 %) WinForms 10 38 (2.930 %) Hibernate 11 31 (2.390 %) XSLT 12 29 (2.236 %) Middleware 13 23 (1.773 %) AJAX 13 23 (1.773 %) .NET Framework 14 18 (1.388 %) CSS 15 17 (1.311 %) JDBC 15 17 (1.311 %) JSP 15 17 (1.311 %) WebSphere 16 16 (1.234 %) Struts 16 16 (1.234 %) XML Messaging	Application Platforms 1 36 (2.776 %) CICS 2 22 (1.696 %) SAS 3 19 (1.465 %) BizTalk Server 4 18 (1.388 %) IIS 5 17 (1.311 %) SharePoint 6 16 (1.234 %) OpenEdge 6 16 (1.234 %) MQSeries 7 8 (0.617 %) WebLogic 8 7 (0.540 %) Lotus Notes 8 7 (0.540 %) CMS 8 7 (0.540 %) Oracle Workflow 9 6 (0.463 %) Tomcat 10 5 (0.386 %) Lotus Domino 10 5 (0.386 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 5 (0.386 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 5 (0.386 %) TPMS 11 4 (0.308 %) Oracle Application Server 11 4 (0.308 %) TIBCO EMS 11 4 (0.308 %) MTS 12 3 (0.231 %) JBoss
Applications 1 39 (3.007 %) MS Excel 2 17 (1.311 %) MS Visio 2 17 (1.311 %) MS Office 3 5 (0.386 %) CATIA 4 4 (0.308 %) MS Project 5 3 (0.231 %) DOC1 6 2 (0.154 %) InfoPath 6 2 (0.154 %) CA Clarity 7 1 (0.077 %) ArcView 7 1 (0.077 %) MS PowerPoint 7 1 (0.077 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 16 (1.234 %) BusinessWorks 2 7 (0.540 %) Oracle EBS 3 6 (0.463 %) MarketView 3 6 (0.463 %) GraphTalk 4 5 (0.386 %) Oracle Applications 4 5 (0.386 %) Teamcenter 4 5 (0.386 %) Applix TM1 4 5 (0.386 %) INSURE/90 5 4 (0.308 %) Global One 6 3 (0.231 %) VisionPLUS 6 3 (0.231 %) Adaptiv 6 3 (0.231 %) BPCS 6 3 (0.231 %) Misys Midas 6 3 (0.231 %) SunGard GMI 7 2 (0.154 %) Sophis VALUE 7 2 (0.154 %) SAP ERP 7 2 (0.154 %) assyst 7 2 (0.154 %) Oracle Financials 7 2 (0.154 %) Summit 7 2 (0.154 %) Sophis RISQUE
Communications & Networking 1 13 (1.002 %) Internet 2 9 (0.694 %) Intranet 3 7 (0.540 %) LDAP 4 5 (0.386 %) FTP 4 5 (0.386 %) X.500 5 3 (0.231 %) HTTP 6 2 (0.154 %) Firewall 6 2 (0.154 %) DNS 7 1 (0.077 %) HTTPS 7 1 (0.077 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 248 (19.12 %) SQL Server 2 84 (6.476 %) SQL Server 2005 3 69 (5.320 %) Oracle 10g 4 65 (5.012 %) DB2 5 61 (4.703 %) SQL Server 2000 6 58 (4.472 %) Oracle 9i 7 57 (4.395 %) RDBMS 8 52 (4.009 %) Datawarehouse 9 49 (3.778 %) Oracle Reports 10 38 (2.930 %) Crystal Reports 11 24 (1.850 %) DTS 11 24 (1.850 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 20 (1.542 %) ETL 12 20 (1.542 %) MS Access 12 20 (1.542 %) BusinessObjects 13 19 (1.465 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 19 (1.465 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 17 (1.311 %) Informix 14 17 (1.311 %) SQL Server 7 15 14 (1.079 %) Easytrieve
Development Applications 1 59 (4.549 %) Oracle Forms 2 53 (4.086 %) Visual Studio 3 33 (2.544 %) Synon 4 23 (1.773 %) COOL2E 5 18 (1.388 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 17 (1.311 %) JUnit 7 13 (1.002 %) Ant 8 12 (0.925 %) ClearCase 8 12 (0.925 %) ProC 9 7 (0.540 %) Eclipse 9 7 (0.540 %) JDeveloper 10 6 (0.463 %) Telon 10 6 (0.463 %) CruiseControl 11 5 (0.386 %) Subversion 11 5 (0.386 %) Advantage 2E 11 5 (0.386 %) NUnit 12 4 (0.308 %) JIRA 12 4 (0.308 %) Oracle Developer 2000 12 4 (0.308 %) Flash 13 3 (0.231 %) Log4Net	General 1 293 (22.59 %) Finance 2 229 (17.66 %) Banking 3 160 (12.34 %) Investment Banking 4 56 (4.318 %) Back Office 5 51 (3.932 %) Front Office 5 51 (3.932 %) Insurance 6 30 (2.313 %) Pensions 7 24 (1.850 %) Retail 7 24 (1.850 %) Government 8 17 (1.311 %) Publishing 8 17 (1.311 %) Financial Institution 9 14 (1.079 %) Telecoms 10 11 (0.848 %) Pharmaceutical 11 10 (0.771 %) Marketing 12 8 (0.617 %) Manufacturing 12 8 (0.617 %) Billing 12 8 (0.617 %) Health 13 7 (0.540 %) Construction 13 7 (0.540 %) General Ledger 14 5 (0.386 %) Law
Miscellaneous 1 138 (10.64 %) Derivative 2 91 (7.016 %) AS400 3 78 (6.014 %) Mainframe 4 45 (3.470 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 41 (3.161 %) Credit Derivative 6 35 (2.699 %) N-Tier 6 35 (2.699 %) Fixed Income 7 34 (2.621 %) IBM Mainframe 8 31 (2.390 %) Equity Derivative 9 28 (2.159 %) Interest Rate Derivative 10 26 (2.005 %) Credit Risk 11 25 (1.928 %) Asset Management 12 20 (1.542 %) Mathematics 13 17 (1.311 %) Equities 14 14 (1.079 %) Market Risk 14 14 (1.079 %) Fund Management 15 12 (0.925 %) Computer Science 16 10 (0.771 %) Multithreading 16 10 (0.771 %) Data Integration 17 9 (0.694 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 161 (12.41 %) Unix 2 107 (8.250 %) Windows 3 36 (2.776 %) Linux 4 31 (2.390 %) Solaris 5 17 (1.311 %) Windows 2000 6 13 (1.002 %) MVS 6 13 (1.002 %) Windows XP 7 11 (0.848 %) zOS 8 7 (0.540 %) VME 9 6 (0.463 %) Windows Server 2003 10 5 (0.386 %) Windows NT 10 5 (0.386 %) VMS 10 5 (0.386 %) AIX 11 4 (0.308 %) OpenVMS 12 3 (0.231 %) OS/400 13 1 (0.077 %) HPUX 13 1 (0.077 %) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies 1 88 (6.785 %) OO 2 42 (3.238 %) Migration 3 38 (2.930 %) UML 4 37 (2.853 %) Risk Management 5 34 (2.621 %) Unit Testing 6 30 (2.313 %) Systems Analysis 7 29 (2.236 %) Data Modelling 8 27 (2.082 %) EAI 9 26 (2.005 %) Project Management 10 25 (1.928 %) Agile Software Development 11 24 (1.850 %) Workflow 11 24 (1.850 %) ERP 11 24 (1.850 %) Business Intelligence 11 24 (1.850 %) Security Cleared 12 23 (1.773 %) Business Analysis 13 22 (1.696 %) CRM 13 22 (1.696 %) E-Commerce 14 17 (1.311 %) Web Development 14 17 (1.311 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 17 (1.311 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 492 (37.93 %) SQL 2 263 (20.28 %) Java 3 255 (19.66 %) C# 4 136 (10.49 %) VB 5 133 (10.25 %) PL/SQL 6 112 (8.635 %) COBOL 7 110 (8.481 %) RPG 8 107 (8.250 %) C++ 9 99 (7.633 %) VB.NET 10 93 (7.170 %) VBA 11 73 (5.628 %) VB6 12 63 (4.857 %) C 13 59 (4.549 %) JavaScript 14 53 (4.086 %) Transact-SQL 15 38 (2.930 %) JCL 16 35 (2.699 %) Perl 17 29 (2.236 %) Shell Script 18 15 (1.157 %) VBScript 19 11 (0.848 %) PHP 19 11 (0.848 %) Progress 4GL
Qualifications 1 56 (4.318 %) Degree 2 9 (0.694 %) HND 3 5 (0.386 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (0.308 %) ISEB 5 3 (0.231 %) MCAD 5 3 (0.231 %) MCSD 6 2 (0.154 %) IBM Certification 7 1 (0.077 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (0.617 %) QA 2 7 (0.540 %) Basel II 3 2 (0.154 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (0.154 %) MiFID 4 1 (0.077 %) RosettaNet 4 1 (0.077 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.077 %) SLA
System Software 1 12 (0.925 %) Active Directory 2 3 (0.231 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (0.077 %) MSMQ	Systems Management 1 3 (0.231 %) AutoSys 2 2 (0.154 %) CONTROL-M 3 1 (0.077 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 297 (22.90 %) Oracle 2 87 (6.708 %) Microsoft 3 58 (4.472 %) Sybase 3 58 (4.472 %) IBM 4 34 (2.621 %) Progress 5 31 (2.390 %) Calypso 6 28 (2.159 %) TIBCO 7 20 (1.542 %) Business Objects 8 14 (1.079 %) Siebel 8 14 (1.079 %) Informatica 9 12 (0.925 %) SAP 9 12 (0.925 %) Sun 10 11 (0.848 %) SeeBeyond 10 11 (0.848 %) Yolus 11 10 (0.771 %) Cognos 11 10 (0.771 %) JD Edwards 12 8 (0.617 %) Red Hat 12 8 (0.617 %) LANSA 13 7 (0.540 %) Baan 13 7 (0.540 %) Bloomberg